The Shimei Museum - Museum of Art Exhibitions and Art Education - was established in 1990. It is open to the public and contains many exhibition areas, including art, natural history, historical weapons, musical instruments, ancient objects, industrial techniques, and a large collection of classical paintings. The museum contains a collection of European paintings that were found in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, which show the development of Western art. The museum also includes a historical weapons exhibition that contains weapons from prehistoric times, the Bronze Age, the Iron Age to the modern era. The museum has a special aesthetic that makes you feel the grandeur of the place and its history, and a desire to repeat the experience over and over.